On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > This is to protect it from being changed by an attacker or someone trying > > to do strange and bogus things to the kernel. > > > > Someone who apparently hasn't heard of vmap(), etc. > > It's a debug aid at best.
It clarifies to all developers that the syscall table should not be messed with. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/